Quotes for All
The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: ‘The world is round, like an orange. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ponder the significance of the responsibility the Lord has given to us. The Lord has counseled, Let the solemnities of eternity rest upon your minds. (D&C 43:34.) You cannot do that when your minds are preoccupied with the cares of the world. Ezra Taft Benson
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. Ezra Pound
There is a two-fold solemnity which belongs to the dying hour-it is the winding up of life, and it is the commencement of eternity. Frederick William Robertson
Your national greatness, swelling vanity; your denunciation of tyrants, brass-fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy-a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation … Read more
Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In the garden there was nothing which was not quite like themselves – nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them – the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs. If there had been one person in that garden who had not known through all his or her … Read more
Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles’s soul; it was the ballast that prevented him from lurching into the serious or melancholy, unlike Andrew, who had been unable to adopt his cousin’s casual attitude to life, and to whom everything seemed so achingly profound, imbed with … Read more
The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities. Dorothea Brande
Solemnity and a complete absence of irony also mark kitsch. Denis Dutton